Talking With Psychopaths and Savages: Spree Killers and Mass Murderers

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Insightful journey into the minds of mass killers.

If criminology piques your interest, Berry-Dee's book offers a chilling yet intriguing dive into the minds of those behind unspeakable crimes. His narrative can deeply affect the way you understand and process the complexity of criminal psychology, especially if you're drawn to true crime and forensic analysis. This book isn't just a recount of events; it's an exploration of the darkest human behaviors.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Talking With Psychopaths and Savages: Spree Killers and Mass Murderers

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ISBN: 9781789464214
Publisher: John Blake
Date of Publication: 2021-01-07
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Sociology
Goodreads rating: 2.75
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A natural subject for the UK's bestselling true-crime author: a study of people who randomly kill large numbers of others (spree killers), or who set out to do so in specific places or situations (mass killers). Because of the ease of obtaining firearms in the USA, many of these, inevitably, are American, but there have been other recent examples in New Zealand and Norway, while three major mass shootings took place in the UK at Hungerford in 1987 (17 dead, including the killer), Dunblane in 1996 (18, including the killer), and in Cumbria in 2010 (13, including the killer). As such killings become more frequent, it is easy to blame them on the ready availability of firearms and weak or non-existent background checks, even though many countries, including the UK, have extremely robust firearms legislation. What is more difficult to establish, however, is the motivation behind such killings: some are occasioned by grievance, real or imagined, while others have their origins in a sense of failure or feelings of inadequacy. Other killers, however, seem to be driven by a desire for power over their fellow humans, often coupled with an overriding contempt for the lives of others. In search of answers to the questions raised, Christopher Berry-Dee offers case studies in some of the most infamous mass killings of the past fifty years, from
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Insightful journey into the minds of mass killers.

If criminology piques your interest, Berry-Dee's book offers a chilling yet intriguing dive into the minds of those behind unspeakable crimes. His narrative can deeply affect the way you understand and process the complexity of criminal psychology, especially if you're drawn to true crime and forensic analysis. This book isn't just a recount of events; it's an exploration of the darkest human behaviors.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.